Commune with Jeff Krasno
89. What Drug Companies Don't Disclose with Allison Behringer
May 7, 2020 · 49 min
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Find out how sexism, racism, and capitalism shape what your doctor tells you about birth control.
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In this episode
- Why drug companies leave critical side effects out of the conversation
- How the pill's history is tangled up with systemic racism and sexism
- What one journalist discovered by investigating her own medical experience
- How capitalism turns bodily insecurity into a prescription
About this episode
Capitalism bombards us with the message, “You’re not enough, but to compensate we're going to sell you a product.” This gets particularly dangerous when the products are pills and medical devices, and in particular, hormonal birth control. Today, Allison Behringer, creator of the Bodies podcast, shares her personal story with "the pill" and discusses how the -isms (sexism, racism, and capitalism) cause problems in modern medicine.
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